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Federal housing vouchers are the largest rental aid program, but many landlords reject them. Experiments will test whether cash helps more p...

More than 100 wildfires stretched thousands of firefighters to the limit in northern Portugal on Wednesday, with seven deaths as fires sprea...

As they fought to keep Sean "Diddy" Combs out of jail after his sex trafficking arrest, the music mogul's lawyers highlighted a litany of ho...

The State Department announced Wednesday that its online renewal system is now fully operational, after testing in pilot programs, and avail...

Two unusual attacks against the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah come at a time when negotiations over a ceasefire deal between Israel and...

The Land Back Movement is an effort by native Americans to reclaim lost land. Two reporters take a look at where it’s worked and where it ha...

Private companies have handled many of Philadelphia's forced evictions. But after several evictions resulted in injury, insurance companies...

Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren’t part of the case that led to hi...

For the first time in more than a decade, overdose deaths are falling sharply in the U.S. Experts say the improvement is so dramatic they're...

In Indian-controlled Kashmir, residents are voting in elections that some hope will lead to restoration of the territory's statehood, which...

Life is uncertain for children in war zones. There, school can be a source of stability or just another thing that war obliterates. We hear...

Following Tuesday's stunning attack on pagers, Lebanon was hit by another deadly wave of exploding communications devices on Wednesday.(Imag...

“The ship’s owner and manager … sent an ill-prepared crew on an abjectly unseaworthy vessel to navigate the United States’ waterways,” the J...

This Shanghai bookstore, now in D.C., was revived by its owner, who hopes to create a space for open discussions in the diaspora community,...

Tupperware's reliance on people selling its storage containers at home-and-garden parties or through social media was once its strength. Now...

A baby pygmy hippopotamus in a Thailand zoo has become a worldwide internet sensation, leading to crowds at the zoo. Zoo officials say the i...

After decades of devastating increases driven by fentanyl and other toxic street drugs, overdose deaths are dropping sharply in much of the...

American cyclist Lael Wilcox rode more than 18,000 miles in 108 days, 12 hours and 12 minutes. She's claiming the record for the fastest wom...

Gold Apollo denied all involvement with the explosive pagers, telling NPR outside its offices in Taiwan that it was a Budapest-based company...

An attack on pagers used by members of Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah led to thousands of casualties. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Beirut-...

Residents of India-administered Kashmir begin voting in the first regional elections in a decade. It comes years after India's government st...

The FBI and the U.S. Postal Service were investigating the origin of suspicious packages that have been sent to elections officials in more...

Floods have taken lives and buried towns in eastern Europe, Nigeria and Shanghai this week. Scientists say intense precipitation is becoming...

A growing number of migrants from around the world are reaching the U.S. via charter planes. The Biden administration accuses these charter...

Over the past two years, millions of fossils have been found beneath a Los Angeles high school. Paleontologists say the finding is notable f...